Burns & McDonnell ยท 1 week ago
Project Engineer - Underground & Submarine Cables (Kansas City)
Burns & McDonnell is seeking a Project Engineer for their Transmission & Distribution global practice in Kansas City, MO. The Project Engineer will be responsible for leading engineering projects from proposal to closeout, ensuring quality control, coordinating with the design team, and maintaining client engagement.
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Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership, direction, and support to design team
Provide team level accountability for the implementation and tracking of design quality control processes and procedures utilizing all applicable QC forms and checklists
Proactive coordination and communication of project requirements and schedule needs across disciplines
Identify, develop, and communicate processes and tools to increase efficiency across the team and department
Ensure that client requirements and expectations, industry standards, and Burns & McDonnell standards are maintained
Communicate with the project manager regularly regarding project status and identification of challenges or concerns relating to project designs, the client, or the team
Identify development needs of team and mentor, coach, and develop team members (engineers, designers, drafters, admin, etc.)
Communicate staffing needs and employee performance to department managers
Create, improve, facilitate and teach training courses to the team and department
Develop engineering scope, labor hour estimates, schedules and staffing plans
Develop project design criteria
Identify and communicate technical risks to the project
Ensure adherence to project plan. Proactively communicate changes to project plan with the team
Maintain responsibility for interdisciplinary design coordination
Oversee production work required to meet deliverable milestones
Coordinate design change notifications with project manager
Provide technical leadership over construction engineering support
Manage vendor drawing reviews and fabrication progress
Monitor workload and facilitate project assignments across team
Communicating high risk or urgent technical issues with the client
Communicate and schedule necessary project resource needs
Perform QC reviews, as required
Ensure that all document sealing requirements for the project are met
Assist in preparation of project status reports
Serve as primary technical point of contact for the client
Communicate all client engineering standards to the project team, including client revisions, expectations, and interpretations
Build relationships with key personnel at the client organization
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Civil, or Mechanical engineering from an accredited program
Must have a minimum of five years of experience in project (engineer/construction) development and execution
Experience working on underground electrical infrastructure projects
Professional Engineering (PE/P.Eng) registration
Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Must be capable of applying intensive and diversified knowledge of principles and practices to broad areas of assignments
Preferred
Experience with project management including:
Experience estimating projects
Experience with Critical Path Method or Resource Loaded Schedules (Microsoft Project, Primavera P6)
Experience with contracts and specification development
Previous consulting experience
Previous utility company experience
Previous construction or EPC experience
Previous submarine cable design and/or installation
Company
Burns & McDonnell
Burns & McDonnell is an engineering design firm and it provides engineering, architecture, construction, and consulting services.
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